Festival X

The Ottawa photo Festival X is going on right now!

The theme is "Otherwise than Seeing: Photograph, Image, Representation".

It explores in exhibitions all over the city how the photographic image frames and re-presents the world to us, and how it invites us to see otherwise.

Facts:
Fextival X
2012 Edition
September 20 to 30, 2012
Various locations in Ottawa
http://www.festivalx.ca/

And the Karsh Award goes to... Rosalie Favell

The City of Ottawa has recently announced that The Karsh Award 2012 is presented to Ottawa artist Rosalie Favell. In combining images from popular culture and her family, she emphasizes on the complexity of Aboriginal identity – inspired by her Métis heritage. In doing so, the ambiguity of some of the photographs even seems to be humorous by all appearance. But her photo-based works demonstrate Favell's struggle to find her place in the world. Her exceptional work is now on display at the Karsh-Masson Gallery.

 

Longing and Not Belonging #1, 1998, Polaroid and chromogenic print, 50 x 40 cm. Copyright by Rosalie Favell

Artist statement:

“My photo-based work centres on issues of identity and culture, inspired by my Métis (Cree and English) heritage. For my audience, both Native and non-Native, I hope to show the diversity of issues brought up in photography and the photograph. Most can choose to deal with the politics implicit in the photograph: others cannot. The camera is a powerful weapon used to colonize minds and memories. The challenge is to know your own part in this, to know your own place in the picture.” (Catalogue excerpt, Rosalie Favell, 2012)

Facts:

Karsh-Masson Gallery
Rosalie Favell
The Karsh Award
September 7 to October 28, 2012

http://ottawa.ca/en/rec_culture/arts/gallery_exhibit/karsh_masson/2012_exhibits/favell/index.htm